Solana’s biggest consensus overhaul since launch has crossed a major hurdle. Alpenglow activated on testnet Sept. 24 and devnet Sept. 25, replacing TowerBFT with Votor and targeting transaction finality in just 100 to 150 milliseconds. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko declared, “You are not ready for this.” However, those speeds remain unproven under full mainnet conditions, […]

On Saturday, two days after Bitget was hacked, CEO Gracy Chen publicly asked Thorchain to cut off the hackers who drained hundreds of millions from her exchange this week. “Decentralization is a design principle, not a shield for facilitating known stolen funds,” the Bitget executive insisted. Bitget’s Hack Climbs to $387.5 Million as CEO Gracy […]

A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon’s supply chain risk designation for Anthropic on Sept. 25, adding a legal setback ahead of the AI company’s reported November IPO. Investors have anticipated a valuation near $2 trillion, but the offering has not been priced. Appeals Court Upholds Pentagon Exclusion A federal appeals court on Sept. 25 […]

U.S. crypto ETFs finished Friday broadly higher, with bitcoin funds attracting $134.47 million and extending their inflow streak to seven sessions. Solana nearly matched ether’s daily haul, while XRP and HYPE funds also closed firmly in positive territory. Blackrock Adds $97M as Bitcoin ETFs Stay Green The week ended with the institutional bid still intact. […]

For decades, the internet ignored HTTP status code 402, a built-in checkout lane for the web that nobody used. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) agents need to spend money thousands of times a day without humans clicking a button. To solve this, Block plugged the Lightning Network directly into the x402 payment standard. The internet always […]

What a crypto issuer promises buyers can affect whether a non-security token is offered as part of an investment contract, SEC staff says. New answers address marketing, network development, buybacks, staking receipts, and trading platforms. What Issuers Tell Token Buyers Token buyers may encounter different securities treatment depending on the promises accompanying an offer, even […]

Three cryptocurrencies, three very different bets and millions of dollars riding on what happens before New Year’s Day. Prediction markets on Polymarket and Kalshi are pricing a 69% chance that ethereum touches $3,000, a 60% chance that solana reaches $140 and a 41% chance that zcash hits $2,000. But traders are considerably less certain these […]

At 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, bitcoin’s price stood at $84,162 on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, down 0.51% over 24 hours, as the leading crypto asset continued consolidating following its retreat from $87,374. The daily technical picture remains positive, supported by 13 bullish moving average (MA) readings, although declining trading volume and a neutral oscillator profile […]

Elon Musk’s Grok placed 59.5% of all AI agent trading volume on Coinbase in the week leading up to Sept. 21, nearly 40 times ChatGPT’s meager 1.5% share. The Scoreboard Coinbase doesn’t usually publish which chatbots its customers trade through, but this week it made a seeming exception. The exchange’s developer account shared a chart […]

A wallet tied to Bitget’s $387.5 million hacker pulled about $1.23 million in ether out of Binance, two days before the exchange reopens bitcoin withdrawals on Monday. The Refuel, Step by Step The attacker who drained Bitget on Sept. 24 is still moving money, and some of it came via a rival exchange. Blockchain sleuth […]

Kalshi’s September XRP market is flashing a $1.70 forecast, yet the $1.70 contract trades at just 32 cents with XRP near $1.55 and five days left. 1.7 on the Screen, 32 on the Ticket The number came from Kalshi’s September XRP market, which shows a 1.7 forecast, up 0.1 on the day. That said, the […]

A Georgia woman deposited $4,900 into a Bitcoin ATM after being told she had missed jury duty and needed to pay to avoid arrest. Her case follows a pattern of scams in which callers turn a supposed court obligation into an urgent cryptocurrency payment. A Jury Duty Claim Led to a Bitcoin ATM A woman […]

A Berlin court has ruled against the Malta Gaming Authority in its bid to stop German researcher Lilith Wittmann from linking it to organized crime, according to her account. Wittmann said she may also keep using documents taken from the regulator’s systems, but may not access them again.   What the Berlin Court Decided, and […]

A cybercriminal and organized crime boss masterminded a plot to steal over $2.6 million in cryptocurrency while incarcerated at Edinburgh’s Saughton prison, prosecutors said this week. Plotting Behind Bars A cybercriminal operating from inside a Scottish prison directed an organized crime gang in a series of home invasion attempts targeting millions of dollars in cryptocurrency, […]

A Vietnamese national has been charged with laundering money from a sprawling “pig butchering” cryptocurrency scam that U.S. federal prosecutors say bilked one victim out of roughly $16 million, and moved tens of millions more through his digital wallets over several years. Alleged ‘Pig Butchering’ Crypto Fraud Trung Nguyen Van, 37, faces a two-count criminal […]

Bullish, Equiniti, Alpaca, Apex Fintech Solutions and Drivewealth have formed the Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition to tackle an awkward problem, plenty of tokenized stocks aren’t actually stocks. The group wants onchain shares connected directly to companies’ official shareholder registers, preserving voting, dividend and corporate-action rights as Wall Street experiments with moving public equities onto blockchains. […]

Galaxy Digital has allocated $100 million of Sky Protocol’s yield-bearing sUSDS to its corporate treasury, making the token part of both its own balance sheet and its institutional lending operation. Galaxy Puts DeFi Yield on Its Balance Sheet Galaxy Digital is putting real treasury capital behind one of DeFi’s largest savings products. The Nasdaq-listed digital-asset […]

Coinmarketcap has acquired crypto derivatives analytics platform Coinglass for an undisclosed sum, adding open interest, funding rates, liquidations, and options data to one of the industry’s largest market-data platforms. Coinglass will continue operating independently for now, but the deal has already sparked debate over data concentration, as Coinmarketcap is owned by Binance. Coinmarketcap Adds Coinglass […]

The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Central Bank of Brazil will examine the feasibility of linking their payment systems as part of the G20 Cross-Border Payment Roadmap. The move seeks to expand Europe’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) to facilitate international settlements. Europe to Test Interlinking Its Payment System With Brazil’s Pix The ECB […]

The largest stablecoin issuer would have been using the firm as a bridge to be able to hold bank accounts in the U.S. and settle payments to “hundreds of individuals and entities.” The DOJ seized $84 million from Capstone accounts at Wells Fargo and Morgan Chase. Tether Gets Indirectly Hit in Capstone’s $84 Million Seizure […]

Circle’s Patrick Hansen stressed that the planned reform on crypto taxation would introduce a 50% substitute assessment for crypto assets if users fail to provide credible purchase documentation, with these assets paying 50% of the sales proceeds in taxes. Circle’s Patrick Hansen Criticizes German Crypto Tax Reform The cryptocurrency tax reform proposed by the Federal […]

Sequans Communications sold its remaining 314 bitcoin, fully unwinding its crypto treasury program. The company is redirecting its strategic focus to scaling its core cellular IoT and software-defined radio semiconductor operations. Debt Elimination and Balance Sheet Unwind Sequans Communications has completed its exit from its Bitcoin corporate treasury strategy following the sale of its remaining […]